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Where is the energy for your garage garden coming from? Plants need a lot of light. Most buildings do not have nearly intense enough light (house plants are low light plants that grow slow so they do fine, but if you want to grow food you generally want a plant that needs a lot more light)



You have windows, now sunlight is irregular that's true. Also there are light concentrator pipe from large roofs that may be used.


From grow lights attached to a solar fed li ion battery, duh!


There is only so much sun energy from the sub we get.




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